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Sunday, May 5, 2013

Resurrection Fern

Resurrection fern is growing on the bottom of our fishtail palm, I found it a week ago, and took the photo and waited for it to rain. The fern dies 2 or 3 days after it rains and comes back to life the next time it rains. I tried pouring rain water from the barrel on it, and it did nothing.

We had 1/2 inch of rain and it resurrected to it's normal self.

To see how it grows in the wild on Oak trees go to my past post Resurrection Ferns at Emerson Point.

Rain brings beauty, and life, but is also brings FROGS that sound like many screen doors opening and closing. And they only SING at night.

Frogs do the same thing the fern does, they dig a hole, hibernate and wait for the rain, and they come out and sing and make babies.

Only you would pour water on the plant to get a good picture!!! Other than that, I'm with the frogs, and if it would just rain, and if I just could, I would do the same. It's so dry and so windy here -- not good at all.

When we were kids, every spring there would come days where it seemed like it had rained baby frogs on the playground. They would be everywhere. We would catch them...and one time one of the boys threw one at my friend who was afraid of them and it went in her pocket! Of course I would have been one of the ones catching them.